Bernadette Joy
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Reasoned, reasonable. We are a wandering species — the whole of us- wanderers with wandering eyes. It is the richness, the vibrancy, the sheer and stagger genetical diversity of our mixing that is our strength. And yes as you point out the belittling of one people by another by skanking about in travesties of all that is holy and specific to another is wrong, insensitive and highly offensive. But we learn by play, we learn by make-believe and dress-up.

As children we learn through books and stories of other ways of living. We play and try on those perspectives, attitudes and wonder. It leads to wonder and reflection. It causes us to grow beyond culturally programmed responses and reactions. It allows us to develop, to deal with new circumstances, to imagine new ways of being. If it were not for the disruption of new ideas we would each and all still be confined to our narrow valley or perched on our islands. Now that would be a sorry, miserable world indeed as Catfish Cooley says.

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    Bernadette Joy

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